• UnderpantsWeevil
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    Probably one of the reasons you see these little robots far more often in the online shitpost section than the real world.

    NYT had a whole article about stochastic violence aimed at robots

    https://archive.is/6s5k6

    A hitchhiking robot was beheaded in Philadelphia. A security robot was punched to the ground in Silicon Valley. Another security bot, in San Francisco, was covered in a tarp and smeared with barbecue sauce.

    The comedian Aristotle Georgeson has found that videos of people physically aggressing robots are among the most popular he posts on Instagram under the pseudonym Blake Webber. And much of the feedback he gets tends to reflect the fear of robot uprisings.

    Dozens of vigilantes have thrown rocks at driverless cars in Arizona, for example, and incident reports from San Francisco suggest that human drivers are intentionally crashing into driverless cars.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 day ago

      The more we do this, the more their tech bro owners will push for allowing these things to defend themselves. Image that little bot in OP’s pic armed with a taser.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        A taser can be defeated with cotton and leather layering. Unless they’re willing to strap a viable arc weilder to one then there are ways around that, if they do strap an arc weilder to one then free arc weilder.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          11 hours ago

          A taser can be defeated with cotton and leather layering

          I can’t wait to walk around daily in my Skyrim armor so I can level up on the pizza delivery bots.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 hours ago

          I’ve had cats you can’t defeat with a squirt gun.

          Maybe we can get the cats to attack the robots.